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Hi
I am trying to install Arch with my Ubuntu. I am afraid of cfdisk so I decided to to partition my drive using the Kubuntu live desktop image. My original partition is:
I have an 80G hard drive and had 14G for Ubuntu root (/), 2G for swap and the rest for /home. I changed the partition to look as shown below. I basically reduced the /home partition by about 2G and moved it to right, I then also reduced the ubuntu root partition to about 8G. I then partitioned the freed up space to ext4 for arch. My new partition table looks like this:
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| | |
| | 80G whole disk |
| Dell info | /dev/sda3 |
|123MB FAT |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| /dev/sda1 | ubuntu | arch | home | |
| | 9.5G ext4 | 7.7G ext4 | 61G ext4 | 2G swap |
| | /dev/sda6 | /dev/sda8 | /dev/sda7 | /dev/sda5 |
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(I got this from disk utility in Ubuntu)
Now my problem is that when I try to install Arch on /dev/sda8 I get an cfdisk "FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6". I am guessing that this is caused by the fact that I am missing /dev/sda{2,4} and that /dev/sda{6,8,7,5} are not in order.
- How can I get them in order?
- Can I ignore this and just tell arch to make /dev/sda8 the root file system (/) and mount /dev/sda7 as /var/data in arch and leave it as /home in Ubuntu?
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In this case I would suggest using the UUIDs to specify your partitions. Have you tried?
Lenovo Y450 + Arch x86_64 dual boot with Windows 7 + Openbox standalone + Arch default kernel + Nouveau + yours truly = A lot of *****in' in the Arch Forums.
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Thank you for the reply, I have not tried UUID's. I don't know about them.
I fixed the problem by using the Kubuntu disk to move the arch partition to be just before the swap and then I formatted the swap to swap and for some reason that worked. It seems the naming of the devices depends on time.
Thank you
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